Name
Fader, H. Louis (Transcriber)
Title
Biography of Late Rev. Gergan Tharchin
Abstract
Typeset (unpublished?) biography of Gegen Dorje Tharchin, a Christian convert and founding editor of the Tibet Mirror newspaper (Kalimpong, India), emphasizing his religious activity. The first half of the biography covers his relations with Sadhu Sunder [sic] Singh, opening of a school in Gyantse, Tibet, and founding of the Tibet Mirror printing press in the 1920s, and refers to the Thirteenth Dal ai Lama and to Rev. Dr. John Anderson Graham. The second half continues to follow his religious and publishing activity, and details his audiences with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, etc.
Collection Name
The Tharchin Collection
Subjects
Clergy--India; Christianity--20th century.--India; Christianity--20th century.--Tibet Region; Schools--20th century.--China; Newspaper publishing--20th century.--Tibet Region; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History 20th century; Tharchin, G., 1890-1976; Singh, Sundar, 1889-1929; Graham, John A. (John Anderson), 1861-1942
Format
books
Genre
Biography
Origin Information
Kālimpong?
Date
not before 1975
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 21-28 cm
Note (Funding)
Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Note
Title from handwritten cover, on traditional paper and applied to [volume 1] only.
Author unknown.
Pages 1-2 of [volume 1] are reproductions.
Volume 1] is typeset but unpublished with 176 numbered pages, handbound with cotton string,
Volume 2] is a typed transcription on by Herbert Louis Fader.
Language
English
Contents
[volume 1]. Chapters 1-16 -- [volume 2]. Chapters 17-27
Library Location
C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
13073109
Also In
Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fw02-m447
Related URLs
Internet Archive - Vol. 1
Internet Archive - Vol. 2